Patents by Inventor Hitoaki AKAHORI

Hitoaki AKAHORI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10013951
    Abstract: A display control device includes an input unit receiving a recognition result of a surrounding situation of a vehicle; and control circuitry controlling an image generating device such that a predetermined image indicating a presentation image at the time of being displayed on a display medium transmitting light is generated in a case in which a predetermined target is recognized in the vicinity of the vehicle. The control circuitry senses, on the basis of the recognition result, that a color of a foreground of the vehicle on which the first presentation image is superimposed in the display medium is changed from a first color to a second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwabara, Hitoaki Akahori, Kazuhiro Morishita, Terumitsu Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20170259743
    Abstract: An electronic mirror device includes: a display that is mounted on an installation position of a rear-view mirror in an interior of a vehicle; and a controller that controls the display. The display includes: a body case having an opening on a side of a driver seat of the vehicle; an image display unit that is mounted to the body case and displays the camera image; and a half mirror disposed at a side of the driver seat of the image display unit. The controller identifies an object moving in a direction toward the vehicle in the camera image, and displays a camera image in which a size of the identified object in a display image on the image display unit is magnified or reduced to a size of the object reflected in the half mirror viewed from the driver seat, on the image display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: MOTONOBU UCHIMURA, HITOAKI AKAHORI, MASANOBU KANAYA
  • Publication number: 20170050569
    Abstract: An in-vehicle display apparatus has a display unit mounted on a mounting position of a rearview mirror in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle. The display unit includes an image displaying unit that displays an image taken by an imager mounted to the vehicle, and a half mirror disposed in front of the image displaying unit. The display unit changes an image to be displayed according to a lighting state of an interior lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: TAKASHI KUWABARA, HITOAKI AKAHORI, KAZUHIRO MORISHITA, TERUMITSU SUENAGA
  • Publication number: 20170011709
    Abstract: A display control device includes an input unit receiving a recognition result of a surrounding situation of a vehicle; and control circuitry controlling an image generating device such that a predetermined image indicating a presentation image at the time of being displayed on a display medium transmitting light is generated in a case in which a predetermined target is recognized in the vicinity of the vehicle. The control circuitry senses, on the basis of the recognition result, that a color of a foreground of the vehicle on which the first presentation image is superimposed in the display medium is changed from a first color to a second color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: TAKASHI KUWABARA, HITOAKI AKAHORI, KAZUHIRO MORISHITA, TERUMITSU SUENAGA
  • Publication number: 20160368418
    Abstract: A rear-view monitor device includes a main housing mounted to a place in front of a driver seat in an inside of an automobile, a display unit mounted to the main housing at a side to the driver seat, a first camera capable of capturing a rear view image of an outside of the automobile, a second camera capable of capturing one of a front view image and a side view image of the outside of the automobile, and a light-emitting section disposed on an outer circumference of the main housing. The display unit includes a display disposed in the main housing and a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: TERUMITSU SUENAGA, TAKASHI KUWABARA, KAZUHIRO MORISHITA, HITOAKI AKAHORI
  • Publication number: 20160337594
    Abstract: A vehicle-mountable display device includes an image display unit configured to be mounted to a position of an inner rearview mirror in a cabin of a vehicle, a driving unit for driving the image display unit, and an orientation controller for controlling the driving unit to control an orientation of the image display unit. The orientation controller is configured to turn the orientation of the image display unit into a rearview-mirror-mode orientation when the image display unit operates at a rearview mirror mode in which the half-mirror is used as a rearview mirror. The orientation controller is configured to turn the orientation of the image display unit into a display-mode orientation different from the rearview-mirror-mode orientation when the image display unit operates at a display mode in which the image display displays the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: KAZUHIRO MORISHITA, HITOAKI AKAHORI, TAKASHI KUWABARA, TERUMITSU SUENAGA
  • Publication number: 20090131121
    Abstract: In the battery utilizing system of the present invention, a battery supplying power to a portable terminal includes a memory which stores at least one content and an output permission condition indicating a condition for permitting output of the content, and the portable terminal includes a determining section which determines, on the basis of the output permission condition of the content stored in the memory, whether or not to permit to output the content; and an outputting section which outputs the content which is determined the determining section as a permission of outputting. Therefore, in outputting a content stored in the battery, out of all contents stored in the battery, only a content whose output is permitted is reproduced in the portable terminal, and hence, a necessary content only is reproduced in this battery utilizing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro IDA, Shigeki ITO, Hiroki SUZUKI, Hitoaki AKAHORI